spotlight europe 02/2010: Lisbon – A Second Shot

Yesterday it was the turn of the Lisbon Agenda. Tomorrow it will be that of EU 2020. This new economic strategy is primarily aimed at producing sustained growth. So far, so good. However, the crucial issue is to readjust the basic governance. The 2020 strategy requires...

spotlight europe 01/2010: Cooperation with the Kremlin

The proposal from Russian President Dmitri Medvedev for a new European security architecture enlivened the debate about the relationship between the EU and Russia. Yet, under the term security, the Russians understand something different than the EU with her concept of soft...

Germans and Jews – United by Their Past, Divided by Their Present?

The aim of this representative survey was to describe the mutual perceptions of Germans, Israelis,
and Jews living in the U.S. In addition to this the intention was to elucidate the respective pic tures
of Germany and Israel, the relationship between Germans and Israeli...

The European Union and the South Caucasus

In this volume we are adding to the current debate about the future shape of relations between the EU and its eastern neighbours by publishing three policy papers which evaluate the EU and its policies from the vantage point of the South Caucasus.

Annual Report 2007

Dear Reader, in February of 1977, Reinhard Mohn signed his name to the articles of incorporation that called the Bertelsmann Stiftung into being. The first sentence of that document gave his reason for doing so: his conviction that divergent economic and political systems...

Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2008

Gradual processes of democratic and economic change are just as important as momentous events in the history of states and their citizens. Few events in international politics evoke as much euphoria and hopes for the future as the fall of an authoritarian regime or the...

Benchmarking Integration in the EU

Integration policies regarding third-country nationals (TCNs) in the European Union (EU) have been subject to multifaceted normative developments and policy processes since 1999. At that time, member states began transferring certain responsibilities for immigration policies...

Corporate Cultures in Global Interaction

Markets and environmental conditions are in a continual state of flux, put growing pressure on corporations, and forcing them to adapt. New technologies are being created, new markets are emerging, and large new corporations are being founded on almost a daily basis.

Corporate Cultures in Global Interaction

Over the past few years, “globalization” has become a catchword. It reflects a widening horizon, particularly in the business world. Transactions are taking on international dimensions, the networks of relationships in business, politics and society are growing ever more...

Attitudes of young people toward entrepreneurship

Young people in Germany are open to the idea of entrepreneurship. This positive result is revealed by the data on attitudes toward entrepreneurship collected for the first time by the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Youth Entrepreneurship Barometer (YEB).